IBM Assessment: Cloud Computing and Business Process Services v1 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company is migrating their inventory management system to the cloud. They need to ensure data remains accessible during peak shopping seasons while minimizing costs during off-peak periods. The application experiences 300% traffic increase during holidays. Which cloud characteristic best addresses this requirement?

An organization wants to modernize their accounts payable process which currently involves manual invoice entry, approval routing, and payment processing. They need to reduce processing time from 10 days to 2 days while maintaining audit compliance. Which Business Process Services approach would be most effective?

A financial services company is evaluating cloud deployment models for their customer-facing mobile banking application and their internal risk analysis system. The mobile app must meet strict regulatory requirements for data sovereignty, while the risk analysis system requires significant computational resources but handles non-sensitive data. What deployment strategy best fits these requirements?

A manufacturing company has deployed IBM Cloud services and needs to integrate their on-premises ERP system with cloud-based supply chain analytics. The integration must handle real-time data synchronization, transform data formats between systems, and provide monitoring capabilities. Which integration approach should they implement?

An insurance company is implementing a claims processing BPM solution. Claims handlers need to access case information from three different legacy systems, and the process includes both automated decision rules and human review steps. What BPM pattern should be implemented to optimize this workflow?

A healthcare provider is deploying applications on IBM Cloud and needs to ensure that patient data is encrypted both at rest and in transit, with key management controls that prevent IBM from accessing the encryption keys. Which IBM Cloud security feature combination addresses this requirement?

A global e-commerce company experiences varying workload patterns across different regions and wants to optimize their cloud resource costs. Their application shows 70% base load with predictable patterns and 30% unpredictable spikes. What combination of cloud pricing models would be most cost-effective?

A company has migrated their customer service application to IBM Cloud and needs to implement a monitoring strategy that provides visibility into application performance, infrastructure health, and user experience. They require automated alerting when response times exceed 2 seconds. What monitoring approach should they implement?

An organization is designing a business process for employee onboarding that involves HR, IT, Facilities, and Finance departments. The process has dependencies where IT provisioning cannot start until HR completes background checks, but Facilities setup can occur in parallel. How should this process be modeled in a BPM system?

A retail company using IBM Cloud needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy for their critical order processing system. Their RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is 4 hours and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is 1 hour. The system processes transactions continuously. Which DR strategy best meets these requirements?